General Confederation of Labour (France)

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Confédération Générale du Travail

General Confederation of Labour
Founded	September 1895
Headquarters	263, rue de Paris, 93100 Montreuil, France
Location	France
Members	640,000[1] (2022)
General Secretary	Sophie Binet
Publication	La Vie Ouvrière Le Peuple
Affiliations	ITUC, ETUC
Website	www.cgt.fr

The General Confederation of Labour (French: Confédération Générale du Travail, pronounced [kɔ̃fedeʁɑsjɔ̃ ʒeneʁal dy tʁavaj], CGT^[a]) is a national trade union center, founded in 1895 in the city of Limoges. It is the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions.

It is the largest in terms of votes in the Labour Court elections (34.0% in the 2008 election), and second largest in terms of membership numbers.

Its membership decreased to 650,000 members in 1995–96 (it had more than doubled when François Mitterrand was elected president in 1981), before increasing today to between 700,000 and 720,000 members, slightly fewer than the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT).^[2]

According to the historian M. Dreyfus, the direction of the CGT is slowly evolving, since the 1990s, during which it cut all organic links with the French Communist Party (PCF), in favour of a more moderate stance. The CGT is concentrating its attention, in particular since the 1995 general strikes, to trade-unionism in the private sector.^[3]

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